Sunday, July 12, 2015

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had
some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab,
the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his
back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what
was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He
had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying
to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime. In
the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange
question.

He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild
pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch
line. The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by
finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs
find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food.

When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down
one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the
fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the
fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you
have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.The pigs, which are used to the free corn,
start to come trough the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the
gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run
around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to
eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to
forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what
he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/
Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as
supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco
subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare
entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms,
just a little at a time as the government forces us to participate in many of
these programs whether or not we want to.

One should always remember two truths: There is no such
thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for
you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you see that all of this wonderful government
"help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America,
you might want to share this with your friends. If you think the free ride is
essential to your way of life, then you will probably not share this.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

President Barack Obama's latest gun-control measures are dodging Congress and secretly putting a silencer on firearm information that should be readily accessible to the public.In the wake of Obama's Spring 2015 "Unified Agenda," which outlined extreme gun-control measures slated for passage via an executive fiat, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and other state representatives have attempted to halt portions of the White House's executive gun-control push, Breitbart News reports.A power grab on armsThe National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) has confirmed the Obama administration is administering a stealth project to hinder the dissemination of information on firearms."Even as news reports have been highlighting the gun control provisions of the administration's 'Unified Agenda' of regulatory objectives, the Obama State Department has been quietly movingIn his ongoing assault on Americans' Second Amendment rights, which some say started soon after he took office, Obama is now attempting to restrict numerous forms of communication Americans have concerning guns and munitions."The administration is reworking the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)," Breitbart's AWR Hawkins informed. "One of the many things regulated by ITAR is 'technical data' tied to 'defense articles.' This includes, but is not limited to, 'detailed design, development, production or manufacturing information' about ammunition and firearms."]Obama's latest quest in his gun-control agenda is to wipe out as much information about guns as he can so that American civilians are as limited from obtaining the specifications they need when researching the handguns and rifles they desire."More specifically, this kind of 'technical data' would be 'blueprints, drawings, photographs, plans, instructions or documentation' related to ammunition and firearms," continued Hawkins, who suggests that the public submit comments about the proposed ITAR changes at regulations.gov by August 3 and mention that their issue is concerning the ''ITAR Amendment — Revisions to Definitions; Data Transmission and Storage."The administration's new stranglehold on public information — that has traditionally been disseminated via freely accessible websites — is now being administered via ITAR."While ITAR and its regulations have not been a concern in the past, as far as constraining or limiting 'material posted on publicly available websites,' there are some within the current State Department arguing that 'anything published online in a generally accessible location has essentially been "exported,"' simply by virtue of being posted, and is therefore under the purview of ITAR," the Breitbart reporter points out.Tying up guns with red tapeIn its effort to severely limit what data is accessible to the public online, the State Department is moving to set up a mandate that all such information must be screened and OK'd by bureaucrats."Moreover, last week the State Department put forth a proposal 'clarifying' how to handle releases containing 'technical data' which are posted online or otherwise distributed into the 'public domain,'" Hawkins explains. "Ultimately, the proposal would require those releasing 'technical data' on ammunition or firearms to first seek government approval."Besides hindering Americans' ability to access the information they need before purchasing and bearing arms — a right guaranteed under the Second Amendment — the NRA-ILA argues that the administration's latest power grab over the firearms industry is nothing less than an infringement of citizens' First Amendment rights."The proposal would institute a massive new prior restraint on free speech," the legal team for the NRA argues. "This is because all such releases would require the 'authorization' of the government before they occurred."In other words, the added burden of miles of bureaucratic red tape that would need to be hurdled with the added regulations would preclude most from posting and accessing information that gun sellers, owners, buyers and connoisseurs need to freely live out their right to bear arms."The cumbersome and time-consuming process of obtaining such authorizations, moreover, would make online communication about certain technical aspects of firearms and ammunition essentially impossible," the IRA-ILA concludes.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The aggressiveness of the Obama administration in its war on
guns already this year has surprised even the National Rifle Association.

Unloading his latest round of gun-control legislation,
President Barack Obama's executive fiat is poised to stop Americans from buying
and selling a traditional form of ammunition that has been one of the country's
favorites for generations — the .223-caliber "green-tipped" bullet.
It's commonly used in an array of rifles sold at local sporting goods store.

The "justification" behind the Obama
administration's ban is based on the availability of a new kind of revolver
that can use the same ammunition made for general-purpose rifles. Some
gun-control advocates — including those staffed at the White House — flag this
ammo as "armor-piercing," according to WND's Leo Hohmann.

News of the White House's move to try and further squelch
the freedoms of gun-toting Americans — by keeping them from loading their
favorite "green-tipped" rounds — had an immediate effect on
Valentine's Day.

"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (BATFE) announced on February 14 a proposed ban on the manufacture,
sale or importation of a popular form of ammunition used by thousands of
law-abiding gun owners," reports Hohmann. "Within hours of the
announcement, the prices on the green-tipped .223-caliber rounds started
skyrocketing."

Restricting munitions for rifle owners was not the intent
behind the Gun Control Act of 1968 that Congress amended in 1986 to keep
criminals with handguns from accessing the "cop killer" bullets from
store shelves. It was already known and accepted that an AR-15 or any other
high-powered hunting rifle firing the bullet could pierce a police officer's
soft body armor.

"This is just another example of the Obama administration
using executive authority to attack the rights of gun owners," Second
Amendment Foundation founder and executive vice president Alan Gottlieb
contended, reports WND. "Obama thinks he is 'dictator in chief' and can go
around Congress to ban ammunition and punish legitimate gun owners. The Obama
administration has doubled down on their war on gun owners."

Gottlieb isn't the only gun-rights advocate who is appalled
at Obama's latest attempt to steamroll American's right to bear arms — with
accessible bullets, that is.

Same route, different agenda

GeorgiaCarry.org executive director Jerry Henry insists that
the president's appeal to executive action to force his latest highly contended
campaign against gun owners is reminiscent of his dictatorial handling of the
unilateral action he took to push amnesty through for illegal immigrants.

"This move is nothing less than this administration
taking the law into their own hands, bypassing Congress and their
constitutional duties of writing and passing legislation," Henry decried
to WND. "This administration has failed to pass gun-control legislation
through the constitutional process. They have failed at the polls to pass
meaningful gun control, and they have failed to win in the courts,"

\enry attests this latest effort by the White House is
merely the president's last-ditch attempt to advance his gun-control agenda at
any cost.

"The only way left is through illegal processes and
backdoor regulations," Henry continued. "The American people have
spoken to the gun-control antics of this administration, but this
administration refuses to listen."

Henry told WND that the current administration has reversed
the "master and servant" relationship that American citizens were
intended to have with government and its officials. He says the federal powers
have now grabbed the reins and continue to straight-arm Americans, ordering
them what to do — not only without their blessing, but against their will.

"If this is not stopped and stopped now, this
administration will continue to push their agenda to disarm the American
citizens with the goal of making them slaves to the U.S. government,"
Henry alerted WND. "Citizens have the right to be armed. Slaves to the
U.S. government will have no such right."

Chipping away at citizen's rights

According to Henry, Obama is masterfully putting the process
of incremental-ism into action, building upon Congress' Gun Control Act of the
'60s and Reagan's "armor-piercing" ban of the '80s only to eradicate
one of its major exceptions.

"If he gets by with this, I believe he will not stop in
his efforts to disarm us via regulations," Henry stressed.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) states the M855 ball
bullet has absolutely no business being classified as
"armor-piercing" ammunition because it is "primarily intended
for sporting purposes." Furthermore, it argues that because the bullet has
a traditional lead core — not steel, bronze, brass, beryllium copper, depleted
uranium or beryllium copper, as all armor-piercing bullets do — it cannot be
legitimately classified as "armor-piercing."

The aggressiveness of the Obama administration this year in
its war on guns has even surprised the NRA, which has been battling with the
White House over its gun-control agenda since the president took office more
than six years ago.

"It isn't even the third week of February, and the
BATFE has already taken three major executive actions on gun control," the
NRA announced. "First, it was a major change to what activities constitute
regulated 'manufacturing' of firearms. Next, BATFE reversed a less-than-year-old
position on firing a shouldered 'pistol.' Now, BATFE has released a 'Framework
for Determining Whether Certain Projectiles Are Primarily Intended for Sporting
Purposes Within the Meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(c),' which would eliminate
M855's exemption to the armor-piercing ammunition prohibition and make future
exemptions nearly impossible."

Pointing out that it's just a matter of time before Obama
bypasses Congress again to assert his extreme gun-control agenda, Gottlieb is
certain that round two is already in

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, “Operation
Choke Point” was secretly launched to cut certain industries off from banking
services, under the pretense that they jeopardize the “reputation” of the
banks.Since no company can survive in
today’s world without the ability to make banking transactions, Operation Choke
Point’s clear objective is to destroy certain industries.Which industries?As reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
critics believe "it's a thinly veiled ideological attack on industries the
Obama administration doesn't like,” such as gun sellers, precious metals
companies, and coal producers.

What’s more, Operation Choke Point is conducted without
first having shown that the targeted companies are violating the law.All of the targeted industries are perfectly
legal, and the companies have not been charged with any crime.So the government is shutting legal companies
out of the financial industry – effectively shutting them down – without any
shred of due process!And this comes on
the heels of numerous government programs to unconstitutionally confiscate
citizen savings & retirement.The
U.S. government is officially out of control!

Why Gold?

There’s no need to explain why the federal government would
want to shut down gun manufacturers & sellers.A well regulated militia, although necessary
to the security of a free state, is a direct threat to a tyrannical
government.The question is, why target
gold?The obvious answer:gold is as great a threat to the nefarious
interests of the state as guns are!

Why?Because the
United States and governments across the globe are increasingly turning to
private wealth confiscation in order to manage their massive debts and maintain
their power structure.Throughout
America, police seize cash from innocent citizens without ever charging them
with a crime. Bankers conspire with the IRS to seize the accounts of innocent
citizens with no notification, no court order, and no charge of crimes.The IMF proposes global wealth confiscation
as a means of funding bankrupt governments.And Congress passes controversial new laws to make your savings &
retirement a prime target for confiscation.

So with our desperate government gaining unprecedented
access to your personal savings anywhere in the world, naturally the
government’s interests are threatened by the one thing that takes your money
out of the digital financial system and beyond government control:And that’s gold & silver.Gold & silver are the ONE asset class
this sits outside the financial system and is completely secure from government
confiscation and global economic collapse.So when you keep some of your savings & retirement in physical gold
& silver, you keep it out of government reach.

Friday, November 7, 2014

According to exit Polls, a majority of voters stated that
they want ‘Immigration Reform’.

Obama and his thugs are making the claim that this is a call
for a ‘Comprehensive Immigration Bill’. As
everyone knows ‘Comprehensive’ is LIBERAL SPEAK for amnesty. Of
course, the media blindly echoes whatever the administration feeds them.

The truth is that every poll taken over the past two years
show that 70% to 85% of those polled oppose amnesty!

A similar number want the borders sealed as a first step!

Over 80% want existing laws enforced.

Several state and county governments have recently gone
public with reports that the only ‘illegal immigrants’ that ICE will accept are
those who are criminals. The reason
these agencies have gone public is that just days after turning these felons
over to ICE, ICE has released them back onto the streets!

Just over a week ago, the administration issued a press
release admitting that some of those aliens that they released were in fact
criminals. We know from several sources
that ICE only accepts felons, so how is it that when they are released back on
to our streets, that only some of them are “criminals”?

It is clear that the American people do not want or support
amnesty, they want the borders sealed, and they want, at a minimum, the
criminal al

It would serve this President well if he were to heed another Exit
Poll fact:

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Uber.Com. AirBnB.Com. TaskRabbit.Com. What
are these websites about, and why are they so controversial?

Let's be clear: these websites, and others
like them, are online hubs for what is best described as the emerging
"freelance services industries."The service providers you find through these websites are most certainly
feelancers,not established corporate
business owners or employees of other peoples' companies.

Uber.Com, a San Francisco-based venture that
matches people who need a ride from one end of a city to another with people
who have cars and are willing to travel, is perhaps the most high profile of
these entities.Visit the company's website, download the app, and search for
people who are ready right now to shuttle you about. If you want to be a
freelance service provider, Uber.Com has a screening process whereby you can
register to deliver transportation services.

This very basic "
seller-hooks-up-with-buyer" type of transaction is happening at an
increasing rate in cities all across the country, all on a freelance
non-professional basis and mostly all via online connections. Need someone in your
area to run errands or perform household chores? TaskRabbit.Com might help you
find a provider who's ready right now. Got an extra room to rent for people
visiting your town? AirBnB.Com connects travelers with in-home accomodations.
If Uber.Com doesn't have the ride you want, their main competitor Lyft.Com
might be helpful.

Be careful to not form an opinion about the
freelance services industry too quickly. And don't decide that it is
irrelevantand choose to ignore it.
Consider these important facts:

1) Freelance service providers are business
owners unto themselves, and not employees: The most egregious examples of
people misunderstanding this generally happen in San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and other large cities where President Barack Obama's economic entitlement
policies are still popular. Indeed, protesters have demonstrated against
Uber.Com in their home turf of San Francisco demanding that Uber drivers be
given membership in a labor union.

But drivers for Uber.Com are independent
contractors, not employees, and as such they are NOT "laborers" in
the organized labor sense. If you don't like the going rates for Uber rides,
then start your own freelance business without Uber.Com's assistance or get out
of the industry altogether. But understand that when you're a business owner
you can't just simply "protest" or "demonstrate" like the
AFL-CIO suggests. Business owners have to be more responsible and mature than
that.

2) The freelance services industry is a huge
disruption to bigger, more powerful interests:Guess who doesn't likeUber.Com
ride sharing services? The established taxi cab industry. And can you imagine
who might not like AirBnB.Com providers renting a room in their home? The
established hotel and motel industry. And mayors, governors, and elected
officials nationwide are disposed to not liking any of this freelance
enterprise because they don't know how to tax it and regulate it.

To be fair, many taxi service operators have
a legitimate gripe with Uber.Com and Lyft.Com. In most cities across the U.S.
(some far worse than others), owning and operating a taxi business requires
thousands of dollars in training, licensing, permitting, bonding, insuring, and
permitting, just to get government approval to launch the business. And then
there are the recurring expenses of permit renewals and vehicle inspections -
once again, all paid to the government - just to keep the business going.

This
same type of expensive government taxation and regulation applies to just about
every other type of service industry one can Envision. And if private
individuals are undercutting, say,a
hotel owners' revenues by renting out rooms in their houses and apartments,
even after the hotel owner has paid all his or her government fees, then yes,
the hotel owner should be upset.

Politicians share in the outrage over
successful freelancers. Less business at the hotel or the taxi company means,
in most cases, less tax revenue for the politicians to spend.If you're intending to become a freelance
business operator, beware: there are lots of people who have an interest in
your failure.

3) A successful freelance economy requires a
society that respects individual rights: There may be few Americans who are
willing to deny that they support "individual rights." But when
confronted with what "individual rights" entails, many of us begin to
hedge.

The rights of individuals to freely sell
their services on the open market means competition for established industries
-and these established industries often have powerful lobbying capacities than
can pressure politicians to pass laws that squelch the freelancers. Do we
really respect everybody's individual rights in the U.S., even if the exercise
of one's rights means that my immediate financial wellbeing is challenged?

4) Resolving the disparities between
established industries and freelance services providers will require less
government regulation, not more:In New
York City - another region where President Obama's vision of politicians
determining economic winners and losers remains quite popular - Mayor Bill
DeBlasio has determined that individuals who rent-out a room in their house or
apartment are violating city law, and has vowed to run AirBnB.Com out of the
city.

On the other hand, in Spokane, Washington - a
city where American free enterprise is still generally accepted - the city just
crafted new transportation industry regulations that both the taxi cab industry
and Uber.Com seem to like. Despite city council members' threats to run
Uber.Com out of their city, the voices of freelancers managed to be heard and
the result was a compromise that subjects Uber.Com and its service providers to
some new, minimal levels of government regulations, while reducing the
heavy-handed burdens the city has historically placed upon traditional taxi
operators.

Will the USA move to respect and uphold the
rights of freelance service providers? Or will we continue to embrace the
Obama-styled protections and priviledges for large corporations and old-school
traditional groups?Americans have an
important choice to make - and the economic wellbeing of individuals is
weighing in the balance.

Monday, August 18, 2014

Participation in the US labor force is at an all-time low, consumption of
taxpayer funded welfare services is at an all-time high, and the greatest level
of "job creation" is in the part-time category.

So what, naturally, would city, county and state lawmakers pursue in
response to a new, entrepreneurial small business startup movement? More taxes,
regulations, restrictions and prohibitions, as a matter of course. In the era of
Barack Obama such policies are "the American way."

It has to do with what is often referred-to as "the sharing economy."
Despite the socialistic sounding name, the essence of "the sharing economy" is
actually very positive. The term is used to describe individuals and
organizations providing, on a very basic and freelance basis, products and
services to people who want to pay for them, and the seller and buyer are
usually brought together through a website or online community. Such service
providers are, indeed, small business owners, even if they don't have a
storefront or office or their own dedicated website.

Take for example Uber.Com, a San Francisco-based venture that matches
people who need a ride from one end of a city to another with people who have
cars and are willing to travel. Visit the company's website, download the app,
and search for people who are ready right now to shuttle you about. If you want
to be a provider, Uber.Com has a screening process whereby you can register to
deliver transportation services.

This very basic " seller-hooks-up-with-buyer" type of transaction is
happening at an increasing rate in cities all across the country, all on a
freelance non-professional basis and mostly all via online connections. Need
someone in your area to run errands or perform household chores? TaskRabbit.Com
might help you find a provider who's ready right now. Got an extra room to rent
for people visiting your town? AirBnB.Com connects travelers with in-home
accommodations.

One might think that Americans getting off their backsides and working,
even if only on a freelance basis, would be a good thing. Yet city governments
in Dallas, Seattle, Tampa, New York, Portland and Oklahoma City have all sought
to impose strict regulations and, in some cases, prohibit these types of
freelance services businesses, largely because the freelancers are not taxed and
regulated like established handyman, hotel and taxicab companies. At the state
level, Arizona, North Carolina and Virginia have all sought similar regulations
and restrictions.

If you happen to be in the minority of the population that believes that
government should encourage, rather than discourage entrprenuership of this
sort, consider spending time figuring out who serves on your local city council
and county board of supervisors, and who represents you in your state
legislature. Then contact these people and politely ask them to stay out of the
way of the emergent "sharing economy," so they don't kill it before it becomes
fully grown.

Don't expect your local politican to agree with you, that the sharing
economy can and should flourish without his or her special meddling. Be prepared
for a barage of rhetoric, but also have a response. Consider for example, the
following accusations that are frequently made about the "sharing economy"
freelancers, and the facts that underlay these claims:

A) Sharing economy services providers are"un-trained and un-licensed":
Sometimes this is sort-of true, but not entirely. Consider the ridesharing
services that Uber.Com or Lyft.Com distribute. Labor union bureaucrats and
politicians lament that the drivers aren't trained and licesned as cab drivers,
yet both websites require a service provider to be a licensed driver in their
jurisdiction. If politicians want to impugn people for "selling" an occassional
ride across town via a website, they best crackdown on people that provide rides
to friends and family without compensation as well - there isn't much difference
between the two. And if the goal is to "level the playing field" between
freelance ride providers and professional cab drivers, then cab drivers should
get some relief from the burden of government regulation, rather than freelance
drivers being saddle with more of it.

B) "Sharing economy services aren't taxed and that's unfair to businesses
that are taxed": Again, this is sort of a "kind of true kind of not true"
proposition. Granted the person who rents a room in their home or provides a
ride on occassion isn't subject to the taxes, regulations, licensure and
authorization fees that an actual motel owner or cab operator has to put up
with. But ride-share providers pay taxes on the fuel, tires and insurance that
they consume when they're driving, and room hosts pay taxes on the energy and
food consumed by each of their in-home visitors.

C) "Sharing economy providers need to be subject to the same regulations
and taxes as more established business owners, just so its 'fair' " : No doubt
there is at times a disparity between freelancer service providers and
established shop owners. The question is, what will remedy the disparity, and
make things more fair? Politicians quite naturally want more control over all
businesses, not less, and the option they never want us to consider is reducing
the burdens of taxes and regulations on existing businesses instead of
increasing it for the freelancers.

Will Americans allow selfish politicians and business bosses wrap their
chains around freelancers? Or will we demand that the path remain clear for the
freelancers? Perhaps we'll begin to act like Americans once again, and tell the
politicians to back-off.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Every time that an objection to blanket amnesty is raised,
we hear a retort of “we are a nation of immigrants”

The statement, “we are a nation of immigrants” is the
truth. However, it is a lie to use that
statement as a justification for amnesty!

Current science tells us that the ancestors of both the
North American and South American Indians emigrated from Asia some 56,000 years
ago. European settlers started
immigrating to North America in the 1500’s and in the late 1700’s; those
immigrants formed the new nation, the United States of America. Very soon thereafter, that nation took
control over who entered, who stayed, and who would become citizens. We controlled our borders!

This nation of immigrants was built by people that desired
to assimilate in to the culture that was America. They had no desire to remake America in to a
little Italy or new Germany or wherever it was that they came from. They did not come for a handout; they came because
they wanted to be Americans.

It was my privilege, to grow up in small towns were Italian,
Polish, Hungarian, German, and Slavic immigrants were our neighbors. They all came here legally. They all wanted to earn their
citizenship. And they all learned
English.

At the bottom of the hill on which we once lived, a very
nice Italian man operated a small grocery store. He attended classes twice a week as he
studied for his citizenship test. I once
saw him throw his brother-in-law out of his store for speaking Italian rather
than English.

That was typical of the immigrants that I knew.

Today, the administration wants to grant amnesty to between
10 million and 50 million people that are in this country illegally. Note: they are illegal; they are
criminals. Many of them have also committed
murder, rape, armed robbery, and various other crimes. Several are members of very dangerous gangs.

These do not want to assimilate in to American culture. They come looking for handouts. They march in the town square making demands.

They most certainly aren't interested in learning English. A Hispanic group (2 adult males, one adult woman and a couple of children) lives on the next street. One male speaks English; his brother, after 12 years living in America speaks very little English, and the woman who has lived here for 15 years speaks no English at all.

There is no doubt that many illegals are also voting. Several studies have indicated that as many
as 10 million voted in 2012 and those votes were the determining factor in
several elections.

Granting amnesty to this group will guarantee that the
socialist policies of the Democrat party will be the permanent rule of the nation.